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  • AllianzGI, EIB target €500m for emerging markets impact fund

    08 November 2021

    Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) and the European Investment Bank (EIB) have raised €440 million ($509 million) for a blended finance fund that will invest in climate-focused investment funds and projects active in emerging markets and developing countries.

  • People moves: DWS, Mercer, Robeco, NN IP, AIG ... and more

    13 August 2021
  • Robeco poaches UBS researchers

    13 August 2021
  • BlackRock, Vanguard among 43 new Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative members

    29 March 2021
  • BlackRock, Vanguard climate and social voting records continue to disappoint

    01 December 2020

    Asset managers' proxy voting record on shareholder resolutions for climate and social issues continued to disappoint in 2020, according to a report by ShareAction, with US giants BlackRock, Vanguard and Capital Group among the worst performers.

  • AllianzGI reveals ESG push in 9,532 company meetings last year

    18 February 2020

    Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) put its weight behind better environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies in 9,532 meetings with companies it part-owns in 2019, it has revealed.

  • AllianzGI poaches BlackRock head of sustainable emerging market debt

    04 February 2020

    Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) has hired Giulia Pellegrini as senior portfolio manager within its emerging market debt team.

  • Nasdaq launches global green, social and sustainability bond platform

    10 December 2019

    Nasdaq has launched an online platform to improve transparency across the green, social and sustainability bond market.

  • Making impact an institution

    21 October 2019

    Elizabeth Corley, the former CEO of Allianz Global Investors and chair of the UK's Impact Investing Institute, outlines the opportunity to help people invest in line with their values

  • TEG expects ‘massive domino effect’ of ESG benchmark disclosures

    01 October 2019

    A prominent member of the Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (TEG) has predicted that recommendations for minimum disclosure requirements for most investment indexes “will have a massive domino effect” on companies publishing environmental, social and governance (ESG) information.